In December 1989, more than 1000, most of them very young people, died in a belated children's crusade to overthrow Ceauşescu's tyranny. They were the unwanted children of the 60s and 70s, the true children of the Revolution, who had now turned against their spiritual father. Had the system failed to brainwash them?
Adrian SOLOMON
Angels, at night, play with girls and boys; they cast magic spells on them and make them look into the sky, in the world of beautiful tales.
Tudor ARGHEZI
PLURAL would like to thank the following for the permission to reproduce the works in the gallery:
PLURAL apologizes for not crediting some picture authors who could not be identified.
NOTE The quotes at the beginning of each chapter are from students of Dorel Zaica (b. 1939), a teacher at Nicolae Tonitza Art High School in Bucharest, whose paintings are in state and private collections all over the world. The unexpected, sometimes amazing answers given by schoolchildren to a variety of questions were anthologized by Daniela Alexandrescu, Irina Nicolau and Ciprian Voicilă in The Zaica Experiment (Meridiane, 2000): “He does not content himself with teaching mere elements of skill, but tries to stimulate the pupils’ creativity by mobilizing their ludic instinct, their innocent audacity, the freshness of their life experience.” (Andrei Pleşu, in Preface). Another book was published in 2007.
SPELLING The spelling of Romanian names (except the authors') was sometimes simplified by eliminating diacritical marks in order to ease reading, e.g. Ţăndărică = Tandarica. Geographical names may appear either with their Romanian spelling (Constanţa) or with their anglicized name (Constantza).
